About

Shaik Emran Sharif is a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with over 16 years of experience in the industry. He has extensive hands-on experience in building distributed multi-tenant applications that address high-availability, scalability, performance, and reliability requirements. His expertise also includes integrating products with open source software and handling the technical nuances. Shaik is an expert in taking projects from inception to completion using agile development methodology. He has a proven track record of delivering products involving cross-team collaboration. He is also an expert in leading small-sized teams, providing all the technical guidance required right from the high-level design phase to production deployment. Shaik's specialities include Java, Javascript, REST, OSGi, JMS, SOA, MySQL, JGroups, Couchbase, Openfire, Hibernate, CometD, Apache, Jetty, and Dojo. He has worked with these technologies extensively and has gained a deep understanding of their capabilities and limitations. Shaik started his career at Microsoft as an intern, where he worked on a project to explore the quality of automatic ontology extraction. The purpose of the project was to see if automatic assembling of the bits of linguistic information taken from a large corpus may substitute effectively the expensive hand-crafting of Ontologies in that domain. He later joined 24/7.ai as a Tech Lead before returning to Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer. Shaik holds an M.Sc. (Tech.) in Information Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is a seasoned Software Engineer with expertise in AI, Java, Javascript, MySQL, and Senior Software Engineer. With his relevant experience and expertise, Shaik is an asset to any organization he works with.